tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-111091952018-03-19T19:24:55.881+09:00Gypsy ScholarBrainstorming about history, politics, literature, religion, and other topics from a 'gypsy' scholar on a wagon hitched to a star.Horace Jeffery Hodgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16684513618463766017noreply@blogger.comBlogger4791125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109195.post-24227344453037293092018-03-19T05:07:00.001+09:002018-03-19T05:07:41.359+09:00Big Throbbing Feet, Or?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-u4inSr4xhl0/Wq5huyc3x2I/AAAAAAAATXw/qKs4aOrrKbY5B_F-t8O-OpcHWTVzY01XgCLcBGAs/s1600/Hot%2BFoot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="700" height="100" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-u4inSr4xhl0/Wq5huyc3x2I/AAAAAAAATXw/qKs4aOrrKbY5B_F-t8O-OpcHWTVzY01XgCLcBGAs/s200/Hot%2BFoot.jpg" width="100" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.google.co.kr/search?q=%22Throbbing+Feet%22&amp;newwindow=1&amp;safe=off&amp;rlz=1C2JPGB_enKR722KR722&amp;dcr=0&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwj8xYWd9PXZAhXBvbwKHUMjA8YQ_AUICigB&amp;biw=1366&amp;bih=613#imgrc=_-VycLsHDz84rM:"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">A Throbbing Pain</span></a><br /><a href="https://www.google.co.kr/search?q=%22Throbbing+Feet%22&amp;newwindow=1&amp;safe=off&amp;rlz=1C2JPGB_enKR722KR722&amp;dcr=0&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwj8xYWd9PXZAhXBvbwKHUMjA8YQ_AUICigB&amp;biw=1366&amp;bih=613#imgrc=_-VycLsHDz84rM:"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Is Hard To Explain</span></a></div><br />"A foot in the door" sounds painful.Horace Jeffery Hodgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16684513618463766017noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109195.post-29642405504004800462018-03-18T11:01:00.001+09:002018-03-18T11:01:34.581+09:00Postmodern Postindustrial Posted Insight<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LWr5yUK3gSA/Wqz26a5QTzI/AAAAAAAATXg/jFBsxTiSQ3cisJrVJvVzgh1flkMLAF-egCLcBGAs/s1600/Locomotion.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="338" data-original-width="450" height="150" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LWr5yUK3gSA/Wqz26a5QTzI/AAAAAAAATXg/jFBsxTiSQ3cisJrVJvVzgh1flkMLAF-egCLcBGAs/s200/Locomotion.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.thyssenkrupp-north-america.com/en/about-us/thyssenkrupp-in-north-america/elevator-technology/"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Elevators and Escalators</span></a></div><br />"An elevator is more peaceful than an escalator."<br /><br />Why?<br /><br />The former lifts you up, whereas the latter makes the bad worse.Horace Jeffery Hodgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16684513618463766017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109195.post-61743033729222408332018-03-17T08:43:00.001+09:002018-03-17T08:43:17.098+09:00Non-Legal Non-Advice<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2wFP6fvodOs/WqxVIEYH3UI/AAAAAAAATXM/Jrl5srccG9oz_cSZcwFsYdaHvb0QCykgQCLcBGAs/s1600/Image%2BOnly.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="192" data-original-width="262" height="75" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2wFP6fvodOs/WqxVIEYH3UI/AAAAAAAATXM/Jrl5srccG9oz_cSZcwFsYdaHvb0QCykgQCLcBGAs/s200/Image%2BOnly.jpg" width="100" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Image Only</span></div><br />A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client with a charlatan for a lawyer.Horace Jeffery Hodgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16684513618463766017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109195.post-46228781079824710242018-03-16T04:10:00.001+09:002018-03-16T04:10:13.644+09:00Problematic Proverb: "A fool and his money are soon parted."<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w1gBJB5lS4I/WqoMTXOn7vI/AAAAAAAATW8/ENuYKrhwxGMBjiLmM0An25r0J0J_5mQDQCLcBGAs/s1600/Water.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="374" data-original-width="500" height="149" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w1gBJB5lS4I/WqoMTXOn7vI/AAAAAAAATW8/ENuYKrhwxGMBjiLmM0An25r0J0J_5mQDQCLcBGAs/s200/Water.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">"A fool and his money are soon parted."</span></div><br />Now, I don't like to pry into some private priorities, but I can see how even though parting money is a simple and arguably good thing to do, parting a fool entails not only being not even a dubiously good thing but, in point of fact of a certainty, being a horrendous, difficult, unhappy task fraught with severe consequences for the state of one's soul.<br /><br /><b>Proverb Rewritten</b>: "Concerning a fool and his money, parting the money is acceptable, but parting the fool is not, as it constitutes <i>murder</i>."Horace Jeffery Hodgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16684513618463766017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109195.post-23160695284828203372018-03-15T03:55:00.001+09:002018-03-15T03:55:12.287+09:00Aphorism Explained<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qHZY83MI6Ow/WqeJpmEjopI/AAAAAAAATWk/3doctX6KbfIELOVvSAbUMRIQSD-gq5UQwCLcBGAs/s1600/Smart%2BWords%2BLogo.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="75" data-original-width="271" height="27.5" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qHZY83MI6Ow/WqeJpmEjopI/AAAAAAAATWk/3doctX6KbfIELOVvSAbUMRIQSD-gq5UQwCLcBGAs/s200/Smart%2BWords%2BLogo.png" width="100" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.smart-words.org/quotes-sayings/aphorism-proverb-idiom-saying-pun.html">Logo</a></span></div><br />I learned something today from a site titled "Smart Words," the "something" being the word "aphorism":<br /><blockquote><a href="http://www.smart-words.org/quotes-sayings/aphorism-proverb-idiom-saying-pun.html">Aphorism</a>: A tersely, memorably phrased statement of a truth or opinion; an adage. [from Greek <i>aphorismos</i>, from <i>aphorizein</i>, to delimit, define. <i>Apo</i>- (1. Away from; off; Separate. 2. Without 3. Related to) + <i>Horizein</i> (limit, boundary)] Example: He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.</blockquote>What I learned was that the "ph" is not the letter "phi," but rather "pi" and the rough breathing mark.<br /><br />Some of us like this sort of stuff -- etymology, I mean.Horace Jeffery Hodgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16684513618463766017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109195.post-31025171365205349342018-03-14T04:06:00.002+09:002018-03-14T04:06:42.685+09:00Boys will be photogenic boys . . .We have photos from the <a href="https://wahcenter.net/">WAH Center</a>! Here's Terrance: <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-en0t4qcTofM/WqeDPOAI48I/AAAAAAAATWM/CGUravqpxR4C8ocn7aKM10Ga-ivjPzF4ACLcBGAs/s1600/Terrance.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-en0t4qcTofM/WqeDPOAI48I/AAAAAAAATWM/CGUravqpxR4C8ocn7aKM10Ga-ivjPzF4ACLcBGAs/s320/Terrance.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><br />And here are Carter and Bien:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3VmsLRqQQ40/WqeD8PEqrpI/AAAAAAAATWU/wAo220ShBBY7lD2NN5aQiE2-YCt7ygPngCLcBGAs/s1600/Carter%2Band%2BBien%2Bin%2BPeriod%2Broom.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3VmsLRqQQ40/WqeD8PEqrpI/AAAAAAAATWU/wAo220ShBBY7lD2NN5aQiE2-YCt7ygPngCLcBGAs/s320/Carter%2Band%2BBien%2Bin%2BPeriod%2Broom.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br />Two of the three boys are holding up an image from my story, <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E18KW0K">The Bottomless Bottle of Beer</a></i>.<br /><br />You might also be interested in my volume of poetry, <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Radiant-Snow-Horace-Jeffery-Hodges/dp/1544213484">Radiant Snow</a></i>.Horace Jeffery Hodgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16684513618463766017noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109195.post-58766160331240766052018-03-13T04:23:00.001+09:002018-03-13T04:23:05.559+09:00According to James Mackintosh (1765-1832) . . .<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rTqRvVh_eo0/WqZsWB8F6PI/AAAAAAAATV4/svLHqXmVNhQ8XGZEBc01SAG7rODJ-5xiwCLcBGAs/s1600/James%2BMackintosh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="237" data-original-width="185" height="200" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rTqRvVh_eo0/WqZsWB8F6PI/AAAAAAAATV4/svLHqXmVNhQ8XGZEBc01SAG7rODJ-5xiwCLcBGAs/s200/James%2BMackintosh.jpg" width="156" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mackintosh">James Mackintosh</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mackintosh">Painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence</a></span></div><br />. . . who seems to have thought quite a lot about a whole bunch of stuff in law, politics, and history:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"The powers of a man's mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks."</blockquote>Ah, so, that's <a href="http://gypsyscholarship.blogspot.kr/2018/03/as-somebody-once-said.html">who says</a> that! Well, I do need a drink. Espresso. Five shots.Horace Jeffery Hodgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16684513618463766017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109195.post-44963806252256420982018-03-12T06:42:00.001+09:002018-03-12T06:42:36.872+09:00As somebody once said . . .<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DbM6MGt4UZo/WqUJwKsrDII/AAAAAAAATVo/6Yovlyn88RwGgX2aDESkCBJGiA0f4coEgCLcBGAs/s1600/Empty.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DbM6MGt4UZo/WqUJwKsrDII/AAAAAAAATVo/6Yovlyn88RwGgX2aDESkCBJGiA0f4coEgCLcBGAs/s200/Empty.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Somebody There?</span></div><br />"The pears of . . ."<br /><br /><b>No, wait. Try again.</b><br /><br />"The powers of a manx mind . . ."<br /><br /><b>Ugh. Try again.</b><br /><br />"The powers of a man's mind are dreckly . . . tireckly . . ."<br /><br /><b>Again.</b><br /><br />"The powers of a man's mind are directly propositioned . . ."<br /><br /><b>No! Dammit!</b><br /><br />"The powers of a man's mind are directly proportioned to the quandary . . ."<br /><br /><b>No! No! No!</b><br /><br />"The powers of a man's mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffin . . ."<br /><br /><b>Once again.</b><br /><br />"The powers of a man's mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drains . . ."<br /><br /><b>One <i>last</i> try.</b><br /><br />"The powers of a man's mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks."<br /><br /><b>Perfect. But next time you intend to quote somebody, have your morning coffee first!</b><br /><b><br /></b>Says who?Horace Jeffery Hodgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16684513618463766017noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109195.post-89454520641155535012018-03-11T08:12:00.002+09:002018-03-11T08:12:25.201+09:00Will Jong-un get Trumped?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZAd4_jeDhAA/WqO90IhRH2I/AAAAAAAATVU/PZEGCjnZuhsb_8KkYPd4UAxrIje67PTpQCLcBGAs/s1600/Big.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="590" height="118" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZAd4_jeDhAA/WqO90IhRH2I/AAAAAAAATVU/PZEGCjnZuhsb_8KkYPd4UAxrIje67PTpQCLcBGAs/s200/Big.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Who's the Weightier,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Trump or Jong-un?</span></div><br />Kevin Kim recently <a href="http://bighominid.blogspot.kr/2018/03/ill-believe-it-when-i-see-it.html">posted his skepticism</a> about the up-coming NK-USA no-nuke talks: <br /><blockquote>[C]all me a <i>yuge</i> skeptic when it comes to the idea that Trump can succeed where others have failed. I'm reminded of Ellis, the doomed character in 1988's "Die Hard," who thinks he can negotiate with a killer and somehow come out on top because, hey - it's all deal-making. You might say that's disanalogous because Trump's the one [who has the desk] with the "bigger button."</blockquote>I then staked out <a href="http://bighominid.blogspot.kr/2018/03/ill-believe-it-when-i-see-it.html?showComment=1520654180933#c8827326736011492110">my position</a>, basically conforming to Kevin's position, but querying whether Trump's the one whose desk has the bigger butt on it:<br /><blockquote>How can President Trump know that "he's the one with the 'bigger butt on'" his desk, compared to President Kim Jong-un? The North Korean president is grossly overweight, so his butt could easily cover more desktop area than Trump's. President Trump is likely assuming that his own far larger girth will translate into a "bigger butt on" area covered on his own desk. If such a test is to be undertaken, each of the two leaders had better come prepared with an ass-covering explanation for his loss, for one of the two men will of necessity lose in this bare-assed, butt-faced, bum-caked competition.</blockquote>Well, we'll soon enough see the results of this up-coming arselogical contest . . .Horace Jeffery Hodgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16684513618463766017noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109195.post-80964789646091737632018-03-10T00:00:00.001+09:002018-03-10T00:00:37.015+09:00Quixote as a Ghostly Charles V<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5yGrNbAMFBo/WqJSmBtzBYI/AAAAAAAATVE/9BhzZWNxGRMAdKPGiq7FEkiAsOvUCB8LACLcBGAs/s1600/Quixote.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="192" data-original-width="128" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5yGrNbAMFBo/WqJSmBtzBYI/AAAAAAAATVE/9BhzZWNxGRMAdKPGiq7FEkiAsOvUCB8LACLcBGAs/s1600/Quixote.jpg" /></a></div><br />I referred obliquely yesterday to the ghost of Charles V, so here's some more obliquity:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Don Quixote's names and actions hide a . . . secret. Following [the literary theorist, Tzvaten] Todorov, there is a double movement toward and away from the revelation [of that secret]. In the end, all that can be said is that the play of genre and narrative may point to a specific hidden mystery, one that deals with a clash of civilizations and the anxieties it causes the protagonist. This secret both complements and contrasts with the vision of a knight as a ghostly <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_V,_Holy_Roman_Emperor">Charles V</a>. Don Quixote as a new Charles is deprived of all power except that of the imagination as he rides through the genres. He personifies an emperor who upon abdication has become 'the ghost of all power.' While the emperor repeatedly walks the halls of the monastery thinking of his past achievements and hollow present, the knight rides through an impoverished Spain, seeking the power that Charles discarded, only to find visions less substantial than his emaciated body. It may be that his haunting is there to warn those who sympathize with the knight that the imperial pursuits of the narrative are flawed, that the secret must be revealed. (Frederick A. de Armas,&nbsp;<i><a href="https://books.google.co.kr/books?id=fZOBAAAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PT38&amp;lpg=PT38&amp;dq=%22But+Don+Quixote%27s+names+and+actions%22+%22The+Ghost+of+All+Power%22+%22Charles+V%22&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=mDgm00okdj&amp;sig=Ez-g59d6pqtyIWhs_xIdTE3lbHc&amp;hl=ko&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwihh8bN597ZAhUW5rwKHQYyDBMQ6AEIJjAA#v=onepage&amp;q=%22But%20Don%20Quixote's%20names%20and%20actions%22%20%22The%20Ghost%20of%20All%20Power%22%20%22Charles%20V%22&amp;f=false">Don Quixote Among the Saracens: A Clash of Civilizations and Literary Genres</a></i>, 2011)</blockquote>There. That ought to raise more questions and eyebrows!Horace Jeffery Hodgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16684513618463766017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109195.post-27921334256766500832018-03-09T03:52:00.002+09:002018-03-09T03:52:33.238+09:00The Ghost of All Power?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4ZbOwGSKflI/WqELeFcBumI/AAAAAAAATU0/eJ4ogPOa5_gSHMY3b5G54kout0FYfS9igCLcBGAs/s1600/Don%2BQuixote.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="875" data-original-width="1069" height="163" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4ZbOwGSKflI/WqELeFcBumI/AAAAAAAATU0/eJ4ogPOa5_gSHMY3b5G54kout0FYfS9igCLcBGAs/s200/Don%2BQuixote.png" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://thewildernessroad.wordpress.com/category/don-quixote/">The Ghostly "Don Quixote"</a></span></div><br />Consider: "A countenance more in sorrow than in anger."<br /><br />The word "countenance" means the expression on one's face, and we might wonder if the phrase is a reference to Don Quixote, the "Knight of the Woeful Countenance," but this in fact is a quote from Shakespeare's <i>Hamlet</i> (1602), a scene in which Horatio (Hey, that's me!) describes the emotional state of the ghost of Hamlet's father.<br /><br />But for now: "Knighty-Night."Horace Jeffery Hodgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16684513618463766017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109195.post-69603911643687653062018-03-08T04:19:00.002+09:002018-03-08T04:19:42.189+09:00This makes no sense!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XyKEeRyNDI8/Wp_T66iynvI/AAAAAAAATUk/vuLnCbddLxAIJKdImZcT98eqI2kcXzM3gCLcBGAs/s1600/Male%2BDog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="853" data-original-width="1280" height="133" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XyKEeRyNDI8/Wp_T66iynvI/AAAAAAAATUk/vuLnCbddLxAIJKdImZcT98eqI2kcXzM3gCLcBGAs/s200/Male%2BDog.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">A Male Dog is Not a . . .</div><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Nor is this a . . .</blockquote>I bitched because I had no shoes,<br />then met a man who had no feet,<br />which made me bitch still more because<br />he didn't worry over shoes.<br /><br /><br /><b>Vocab Words:</b><br /><br />Bitch<br /><br />Poem<br /><br /><b>Student:</b>&nbsp;"This is a very hard test, Teacher. Can we have more time?"<br /><br /><b>Teacher:</b> "No, but I'll give part credit for being wrong."Horace Jeffery Hodgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16684513618463766017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109195.post-8417594174461126292018-03-07T04:39:00.001+09:002018-03-07T04:39:44.557+09:00Beyond our Ken<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Hkb8MRHbKQs/Wp0QDNLEjvI/AAAAAAAATUQ/CTLYpGHi4FYc40zzXacxzETmv4KlKoHmgCLcBGAs/s1600/Ken.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="381" data-original-width="570" height="133" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Hkb8MRHbKQs/Wp0QDNLEjvI/AAAAAAAATUQ/CTLYpGHi4FYc40zzXacxzETmv4KlKoHmgCLcBGAs/s200/Ken.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://jewel925.com/re-designing-ken/"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Ken No Kin To Ken</span></a></div><br />But what, then, does "Ken" mean?<br /><br />Meaning: Understanding<br /><br />As in: Beyond our Understanding <br /><br />Humpf, I knew that already. <br /><br />As for the name "Ken," from "Kenneth," see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth">here</a>.Horace Jeffery Hodgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16684513618463766017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109195.post-66142428877422962202018-03-06T04:10:00.001+09:002018-03-06T04:10:17.222+09:00All Greek to Me . . .<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-A20qDWrdmHk/WpyUvX_IvZI/AAAAAAAATUA/7J1MN6e3uwgubuEYJ3qkgWu0ko8zWU5WwCLcBGAs/s1600/Dementia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="540" height="160" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-A20qDWrdmHk/WpyUvX_IvZI/AAAAAAAATUA/7J1MN6e3uwgubuEYJ3qkgWu0ko8zWU5WwCLcBGAs/s200/Dementia.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.google.co.kr/search?q=dementia&amp;newwindow=1&amp;safe=off&amp;rlz=1C2JPGB_enKR722KR722&amp;dcr=0&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiN7rqW-9PZAhVBmJQKHcHEB_IQ_AUICigB&amp;biw=1366&amp;bih=613#imgrc=Sdf7SPvEwiSKfM:"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Annoying Dementia</span></a></div><br />Thirty years ago, I shared a poem with a Greek friend of mine, and she pointed out that the title, "Anamnestic Dementia," mixed Greek and Latin. I didn't much care at the time, so I didn't change it, but now that I will be publishing the poem, I want to get it right, so I contacted her again, to ask about using "Anoiosis" in place of "Dementia" and she replied:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"Anoiosis​" does not sound right to me . . . When I check the dictionary, "anoia" is the word used there for dementia in Greek. So either "Anamnestic Anoia" or even leave it with the mixed "Anamnestic Dementia." </blockquote>I prefer the pure Greek, so "Anamnestic Anoia" it shall be! But if any of my readers who are experts in Greek want to weigh in on this, please feel free to add your voice . . .Horace Jeffery Hodgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16684513618463766017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109195.post-30322360269351862132018-03-05T05:41:00.000+09:002018-03-05T05:41:00.657+09:00Spilt Spelt "Spilled"?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0EFaFo3ZLxA/Wps-RWhGpSI/AAAAAAAATTw/qtrzCxnxtGcF7WTqL6tbAMVLxML_HDBcQCLcBGAs/s1600/Spilled%2BMilk.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="133" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0EFaFo3ZLxA/Wps-RWhGpSI/AAAAAAAATTw/qtrzCxnxtGcF7WTqL6tbAMVLxML_HDBcQCLcBGAs/s200/Spilled%2BMilk.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.google.co.kr/search?q=sayings&amp;newwindow=1&amp;safe=off&amp;rlz=1C2JPGB_enKR722KR722&amp;dcr=0&amp;tbm=isch&amp;tbo=u&amp;source=univ&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjmvJyxtNHZAhVCUrwKHdu4B48QsAQIJQ&amp;biw=1366&amp;bih=613#imgrc=N5Z17hDtGgtJnM:">Or Spilt Anything?</a></span></div><br />Is it: "No use crying over spilled milk." Or is it: "No use crying over spilt milk." But in either case, why no use crying? Should one rather cry over unspilled/unspilt milk? And what about spoiled or spoilt milk?<br /><br />So much conventional wisdom to unpack . . .Horace Jeffery Hodgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16684513618463766017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109195.post-40950676492760119102018-03-04T06:51:00.003+09:002018-03-04T06:51:42.062+09:00It's cliché to say so, but . . .<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uSYU1fbS1iw/WppgqtnBSgI/AAAAAAAATTg/GUfjtJrsCqw73x0c43fCjHxlsEScaS6IwCLcBGAs/s1600/Clich%25C3%25A9.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="377" data-original-width="600" height="62.5" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uSYU1fbS1iw/WppgqtnBSgI/AAAAAAAATTg/GUfjtJrsCqw73x0c43fCjHxlsEScaS6IwCLcBGAs/s200/Clich%25C3%25A9.png" width="100" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://literaryterms.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/CicheCloud_Shaded.png"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Middle Matter</span></a></div><br />. . . "cliché" is so often described as an "overly commonplace, banal, or trite saying, expression, or idea."<br /><br />Can't anyone offer something different, something <i>good</i> to say about clichés?Horace Jeffery Hodgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16684513618463766017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109195.post-15073647186840776772018-03-03T07:49:00.001+09:002018-03-03T07:49:29.150+09:00Don't Angrify the Blood<div class="separator tr_bq" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ah8PMAukxWA/WpeHqb2yGlI/AAAAAAAATS8/_BpJN3HtgDk-iYYijZBsavj4-1RRLtQGACLcBGAs/s1600/Haters.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="702" height="175" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ah8PMAukxWA/WpeHqb2yGlI/AAAAAAAATS8/_BpJN3HtgDk-iYYijZBsavj4-1RRLtQGACLcBGAs/s320/Haters.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.google.co.kr/search?q=Hater&amp;newwindow=1&amp;safe=off&amp;rlz=1C2JPGB_enKR722KR722&amp;dcr=0&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiqv4CqpsrZAhVN6WMKHVz3Ay4Q_AUICigB&amp;biw=1366&amp;bih=613#imgrc=lZLKcFuDFBARcM:">Aku vs Lord Hater</a></div><br />Today's idiolectual idiom: "Mad as a <i>hater</i>."<br /><br />Note: The rare word "hater" rhymes with the common word "tater."<br /><br />What? Not "hater?" "Hatter?" Okay, "Hatter" it is!<br /><br /><blockquote>Mad as a "hatter,"<br />That's whatsamatter.</blockquote>Horace Jeffery Hodgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16684513618463766017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109195.post-44381018556228776902018-03-02T04:18:00.000+09:002018-03-18T11:42:42.189+09:00Review of Vitasta Raina's Novella: Writer’s Block<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gCpKL1CIKq4/WpeicYtGtOI/AAAAAAAATTM/4MsPaDNYNrY4NjqRBEz5wA4EgC5zmXsUQCLcBGAs/s1600/Raina.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="333" height="200" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gCpKL1CIKq4/WpeicYtGtOI/AAAAAAAATTM/4MsPaDNYNrY4NjqRBEz5wA4EgC5zmXsUQCLcBGAs/s200/Raina.jpg" width="133" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Writers-Block-Vitasta-Raina/dp/1456343122/ref">Amazon Books</a></div><br />Vitasta Raina, urban planner and architect, lives and works in Mumbai, India, where she composed her novella, <i>Writer's Block</i>. The pun on block as "impediment" and block as "city unit" is intentional, and writers living in the block might or might not experience writer's block. Some do, some don't, but for the most part, the writers living there seem sufficiently ruly and productive.<br /><br />But the city Chalet and its residents, the so-called charlatans, are about to undergo a crisis. <br /><br />However, I don't want to reveal many plot spoilers. I will therefore offer a few thoughts. The story covers about 64 pages and focuses on the lives of eight writers, who are called "CAST," and distributes them across eight chapters (8x8=64), the last of which is titled, "While the Credits Roll," as if the novella were a motion picture. The first seven chapters are identified as "epiphanies," which would make them divinely inspired insights, and the subtitles read like a continuous poem of free verse style with occasional rhyme, as here on the first page:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">I am if I choose to be<br />But I have no choice<br />In these million years of evolution<br />I have finally lost my voice (page 1) </blockquote>The chapters are prose of native speaker quality, the sentences often of complex length, but nevertheless concise and clear. For example, here is a sentence describing a model of the city:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"Representing a city that in the last decadal cycle of the City Census estimated almost sixty percent of the inhabitants as parasite slum dwellers, the model displayed high rise residential estates, office complexes, shopping arcades, golf courses and a meandering network of transit corridors, flyovers and flyunders connecting the ends, the edges, the fringes and the cores of Chalet." (page 9) </blockquote>The model is of an idealized Chalet, and mickle are the ways this city could be represented, extremes of poverty and riches, of asceticism and gluttony, of good and bad, of weak and strong, a list that could go on and on.<br /><br />But the electricity abruptly stops working, and so does everything else, most significantly, the elevators. At that severe inconvenience, Chalet is turned upside down, literally, as the rich pour into the streets and the poor ricochet up to the penthouses. Still, life goes on, for most of the writers, who are stuck in the middle, neither rich nor poor, and Chalet goes on as well. This is all along expected as one reads this slender volume, but the details make for the difference, and for the unexpected.<br /><br />Five Stars out of Five!Horace Jeffery Hodgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16684513618463766017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109195.post-13624015985920280232018-03-01T05:58:00.001+09:002018-03-01T05:58:35.060+09:00Misunderstood Sayings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vpT32BeuQFg/Wpamrk4r2cI/AAAAAAAATSo/_1yGc91C_owuC-pBFgpGZSCSNOfxsIowgCLcBGAs/s1600/Gecko.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="224" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vpT32BeuQFg/Wpamrk4r2cI/AAAAAAAATSo/_1yGc91C_owuC-pBFgpGZSCSNOfxsIowgCLcBGAs/s1600/Gecko.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.google.co.kr/search?q=Gecko&amp;newwindow=1&amp;safe=off&amp;rlz=1C2JPGB_enKR722KR722&amp;dcr=0&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjlyfi808jZAhUDE7wKHZCbAA4Q_AUICigB&amp;biw=1366&amp;bih=613"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Gecko with a Knowing Look</span></a></div><br />At a workshop to prepare for the upcoming semester, another instructor there used the expression "to know from the get-go," but I heard "to know from the gecko."<br /><br />But maybe that other instructor is - with my help - on to something, as the image above would seem to show, so go to the gecko for to be in the know-know . . .Horace Jeffery Hodgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16684513618463766017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109195.post-51596528562458523342018-02-28T06:22:00.001+09:002018-02-28T06:22:18.393+09:00More Photos from Gangneung<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">A Myth of Falling</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FKXsQS4vVKQ/WpUKa6DdkvI/AAAAAAAATSQ/BY8D66slWb0pNc6z81ZrwbbMiq_d-856QCLcBGAs/s1600/P4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="900" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FKXsQS4vVKQ/WpUKa6DdkvI/AAAAAAAATSQ/BY8D66slWb0pNc6z81ZrwbbMiq_d-856QCLcBGAs/s320/P4.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ambrosia, for the gods alone,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">but I take some for myself!</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i89g6TVdwi0/WpUJHJRs0oI/AAAAAAAATR0/LLE7wEYY8zE4JEAvGSwU5k8-C7PUg7tNACLcBGAs/s1600/P5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="900" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i89g6TVdwi0/WpUJHJRs0oI/AAAAAAAATR0/LLE7wEYY8zE4JEAvGSwU5k8-C7PUg7tNACLcBGAs/s320/P5.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">My punished powers weakened,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I find I can no longer</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">even tip to sip a cup!</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V9Q7n6IlJrg/WpUJjeIEjcI/AAAAAAAATR8/tYevNUXxmzwj6cE_3_MmAraa9biXPeHaACLcBGAs/s1600/P3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="180" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V9Q7n6IlJrg/WpUJjeIEjcI/AAAAAAAATR8/tYevNUXxmzwj6cE_3_MmAraa9biXPeHaACLcBGAs/s320/P3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The crown of creation,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">now a bloodied mass of thorns</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">upon my brow . . .</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">plus a fire extinguisher.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PQmHpA8XiOg/WpUKqn0c5hI/AAAAAAAATSU/41BePM6lDmM0nlnLhljRa0YR4TA6eRRAACLcBGAs/s1600/P1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="900" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PQmHpA8XiOg/WpUKqn0c5hI/AAAAAAAATSU/41BePM6lDmM0nlnLhljRa0YR4TA6eRRAACLcBGAs/s320/P1.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Eve and Adam dwell</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">upon their fallen future because . . .</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F7rA5DynYHs/WpUJX60F3NI/AAAAAAAATR4/qQ1CIqjkkqg-pLsHtIGM4E9D2aqTG4ORQCLcBGAs/s1600/P2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="180" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F7rA5DynYHs/WpUJX60F3NI/AAAAAAAATR4/qQ1CIqjkkqg-pLsHtIGM4E9D2aqTG4ORQCLcBGAs/s320/P2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">. . . heads will roll!</span></div>Horace Jeffery Hodgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16684513618463766017noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109195.post-28326118232053598142018-02-27T00:01:00.001+09:002018-02-27T19:45:41.943+09:00Paradise LostSun-Ae and I took a long walk yesterday in Gangneung, the city where some of the Winter Olympics took place, and here's a photo that she shot at my request:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-V_NkJuKhQs8/WpQe4xOsILI/AAAAAAAATRg/EhFn-R0He5wwdpvA8Ohl1uk8tnMq-Bb9wCLcBGAs/s1600/Adam%2Band%2BEve.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="180" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-V_NkJuKhQs8/WpQe4xOsILI/AAAAAAAATRg/EhFn-R0He5wwdpvA8Ohl1uk8tnMq-Bb9wCLcBGAs/s320/Adam%2Band%2BEve.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Yes, those two are - reading from left to right -&nbsp; Eve and Adam, and they serve as remainders of our fallen state, for the Korean title says "Paradise Lost" (1999). The artist is Oh Sang-il (오상일).Horace Jeffery Hodgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16684513618463766017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109195.post-17024365882489869742018-02-26T05:45:00.001+09:002018-02-26T05:45:51.451+09:00Famous Mishearings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YsbV-FC5oBc/WpJm5PZESnI/AAAAAAAATRM/8zcfSPe7XhQPL9oNwafnrnujdVcpVE-JACLcBGAs/s1600/Rhinos.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="632" data-original-width="950" height="132" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YsbV-FC5oBc/WpJm5PZESnI/AAAAAAAATRM/8zcfSPe7XhQPL9oNwafnrnujdVcpVE-JACLcBGAs/s200/Rhinos.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"Friends, Romans, Countrymen,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">lend me your rears."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.google.co.kr/search?q=rear+ends&amp;newwindow=1&amp;safe=off&amp;rlz=1C2JPGB_enKR722KR722&amp;dcr=0&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjSuu-PxcDZAhUFKpQKHab3DWAQ_AUICigB&amp;biw=1366&amp;bih=613#imgrc=_">No Comment</a></span></div>Horace Jeffery Hodgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16684513618463766017noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109195.post-55025701812961858352018-02-25T00:18:00.002+09:002018-02-25T00:18:49.431+09:00Christina's Better Hairstyle?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yL1urfHu7Cg/WpEPHou3LTI/AAAAAAAATQ8/i8wC2uO6xAwDzRwaj8pWE4Al9SFiB0QEQCLcBGAs/s1600/Christina%2BRees.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="600" height="100" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yL1urfHu7Cg/WpEPHou3LTI/AAAAAAAATQ8/i8wC2uO6xAwDzRwaj8pWE4Al9SFiB0QEQCLcBGAs/s200/Christina%2BRees.png" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Christina's New 'Do' Under that Cap?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/161be3ca349286f9">Glasstire</a></span></div><br />Some days ago, I left a humorous message at Glasstire imploring Christina Rees to change her hairstyle from a recent one that <a href="http://gypsyscholarship.blogspot.kr/2018/02/glasstire-of-texas-no-reesponse.html">reminded me of a bushel</a>. My comment didn't pass moderation, but I think Christina got it because you see her much improved in the photo above as she self-consciously touches her cap and looks directly at me in a silent challenge that I find fault with this!<br /><br />In fact, I like this cap, but I hope it's not just hiding that bushel of hair she was sporting in the previous photo . . .Horace Jeffery Hodgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16684513618463766017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109195.post-88602737625124053622018-02-24T00:01:00.001+09:002018-02-24T00:01:33.999+09:00Lying to Women?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sjv0WP2qenI/Wo6DZ67dBuI/AAAAAAAATQk/G_VeY9o6G1A12Ru-UVMtXp5FoUTmCbviwCLcBGAs/s1600/Lie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="410" data-original-width="728" height="112" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sjv0WP2qenI/Wo6DZ67dBuI/AAAAAAAATQk/G_VeY9o6G1A12Ru-UVMtXp5FoUTmCbviwCLcBGAs/s200/Lie.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Lies?</span></div><br />Let me see if I understand this. You can lie to women, but not to men. Strange rule! And it's stated outright, as if the rule-maker doesn't care that women can read it, too. But maybe the rule-maker figured men wouldn't let women learn to read.<br /><br />Or maybe it's all just a joke. The term "Lev." is obviously an abbreviation for "Levity," that funniest of all humorous Old Testament books.<br /><br />You'll laugh your ass-embly right off of you . . .Horace Jeffery Hodgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16684513618463766017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109195.post-60580456680024889242018-02-23T04:01:00.001+09:002018-02-23T04:01:22.617+09:00Comparisons are Odious?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--DdHTkbyBzM/Wo6BxIKluuI/AAAAAAAATQY/jSBNVLkF13UuGmPkSolTrFgz6BRaSs3BwCLcBGAs/s1600/Odious.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="112" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--DdHTkbyBzM/Wo6BxIKluuI/AAAAAAAATQY/jSBNVLkF13UuGmPkSolTrFgz6BRaSs3BwCLcBGAs/s200/Odious.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.google.co.kr/search?q=odious&amp;newwindow=1&amp;safe=off&amp;dcr=0&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiFzu3jjrnZAhXFa7wKHeMVDwMQ_AUICigB&amp;biw=1366&amp;bih=613#imgrc=PumKyauJ2BTGvM:">Abominable</a></span></span></div><br />Comparisons are odious? Isn't that like saying analogies are abominable?Horace Jeffery Hodgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16684513618463766017noreply@blogger.com0